LawFuel’s 2022 Lawyer of the Year is the battling ‘loophole lawyer’ who fought to get Charlotte Bellis into the country under the MIQ lottery system.
Article source: Triumph Law Group, AZ Image: Magnific Cities across the U.S. are embracing Vision Zero, a bold commitment to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries through data-driven policies and street redesign. These initiatives certainly help reshape urban environments for the better, but they are also changing the legal landscape concerning pedestrian injury claims. For
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has recruited highly regarded financial services and regulatory lawyer Emma Rachmaninov from Freshfields, further expanding the firm’s London financial team. Rachmaninov will co-head its European financial services and funds regulatory team. Media release is here – Simpson Thacher has announced that Emma Rachmaninov will join the Firm’s European Funds Practice in
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Freshfields’ US growth ambitions has forced out equity partners across London, Paris and Germany, the Financial Times reported on 13 July, weeks after a pay overhaul left dozens of its roughly 500 partners holding fewer equity points.
Freshfields reset its internal exchange rate from $1.60 to the pound down to about $1.30, then handed extra points to its top US earners so their dollar pay held. Points are a share of a fixed pool and Freshfields’ European partners are the pool.
The Financial Times reported this week that Freshfields has culled equity partners in recent weeks, with its London headquarters and its Paris and German offices all seeing exits and equity downgrades.
City AM ran it as a shake-up to fund the American push, which it is. What neither write-up reached is the ledger entry that explains it, and that ledger entry has been sitting in public since March.
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Australia’s leading independent law firm, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, has advised Vault Minerals Ltd (Vault) (ASX: VAU) on its proposed merger with Genesis Minerals Ltd (Genesis) (ASX: GMD) to create a top three Australian gold producer with a pro forma market capitalisation of approximately A$12.6 billion. The proposed transaction follows the previously announced A$10.7 billion ‘merger
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For three decades, law firm marketing has been built around being “known”: directories, awards, rankings, pitch documents and carefully honed websites. That world hasn’t disappeared but the way clients first meet your firm has. And a new UK report on law marketing in the age of AI has thrown an interesting light on what your firm needs to do to be recognized by AI.
First impressions of law firms is increasingly formed not by your homepage, but by an AI system summarising everything it can find about you into a single paragraph, before the prospective client has clicked a thing.
In that world, the question stops being “Does my page rank?” and becomes “When an AI assembles a view of my firm, is that view distinctive, credible and worth recommending?”.
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A former Open Country Dairy Limited (OCD) group market manager has pleaded guilty to receiving more than $250,000 in kickbacks from an overseas customer, following a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation. Simon Stewart has entered a guilty plea in the Manukau District Court to one representative charge of acceptance of gift by agent under section
Linklaters has intensified its push into the US legal market with the hire of veteran litigators H. Christopher Boehning and Daniel Levi from Paul Weiss, bolstering both its disputes capability and its global sports practice. Boehning will chair Linklaters’ Global Sports Practice and US Strategic Disputes group, bringing heavyweight clients including FIFA and Regeneron. The
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Dr. Yannek Wloch, Director Legal Engineering Libra by Wolters Kluwer Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday legal work. Across law firms and legal departments, organizations are experimenting with new tools to accelerate research, automate drafting, and improve efficiency. Yet the most important questions are no longer about technology alone. Increasingly, they are about
Dunedin-based boutique law firm Reid Cooper Gray has strengthened its leadership structure, announcing the promotion of litigation specialist Charlotte Moran to Principal. Moran joins co-founders Michaela Ryan and Warren Moffat at the helm of the firm, which launched in November 2024 with a mission to challenge traditional legal sector norms. The three Principals are long-time
Leading global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (HSF Kramer) has retained its status as Australia’s leading legal adviser for mergers and acquisitions, topping three league tables for H1 2026. The firm ranked: Andrew Rich, Corporate M&A partner, said it has been a busy year for dealmaking so far despite the uncertainty that marked the
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